15 December
December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 37 - Nero, Roman emperor (d. 68)
- 130 - Lucius Verus, Roman emperor (d. 169)
- 1613 - La Rochefoucauld, writer (d. 1680)
- 1832 - Gustave Eiffel, civil engineer (d. 1923)
- 1852 - Antoine Henri Becquerel, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1903 (d. 1908)
- 1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
- 1861 - Charles Duryea, automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
- 1888 - Maxwell Anderson, writer (d. 1959)
- 1892 - J. Paul Getty, oil tycoon (d. 1976)
- 1910 - John Hammond, musician
- 1912 - Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
- 1912 - Stan Kenton, musician (d. 1979)
- 1916 - Buddy Cole, pianist (d. 1964)
- 1918 - Jeff Chandler, actor (d. 1961)
- 1922 - Alan Freed, disc jockey (d. 1965)
- 1923 - Freeman Dyson, physicist
- 1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, painter and graphic artist (d. 2000)
- 1933 - Tim Conway, actor, comedian
- 1938 - Michael Bogdanov, film director and theatre manager
- 1942 - Dave Clark, musician ("Dave Clark Five")
- 1949 - Don Johnson, actor
Deaths
- 1025 - Basil II, Byzantine emperor (b. 958)
- 1072 - Alp Arslan, Seljuk sultan (b. 1029)
- 1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
- 1683 - Izaak Walton, writer (b. 1593)
- 1792 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer (b. 1756)
- 1816 - Charles Stanhope, engineer, inventor of the calculator
- 1890 - Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. c.1831)
- 1943 - Fats Waller, musician (b. 1904)
- 1944 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (presumed date) (b. (1904)
- 1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, physicist (b. 1900)
- 1966 - Walt Disney, animator, cartoonist (b. 1901)
- 1968 - Jess Willard, boxer
- 1975 - Anatole Litvak, writer
- 2003 - Johnny Cunningham, Scottish musician, member of Silly Wizard
Holidays and Observances
See Also
December 14 - December 16 - November 15 - January 15 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December
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